WHEATON'S ELEMENTS
INTERNATIONAL LAW
FIFTH ENGLISH EDITION,
REVISED THROUGHOUT, CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED
AND RE-WRITTEN
BY
COLEMAN PHILLIPSON, M.A., LL.D., Litt.D.,
OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW,
Author of " Studies in International Law "; " Effect of War on Contracts ";
" The International Law and Custom of Ancient Greece and Rome ";
" International Law and the Great War ";
Part Author of " Great Jurists of the World ";
Editor of Foote's " Private International Jurisprudence "; etc.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
The Rt. Hon. SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, Bt., D.C.L., LL.D.,
Author of " Principles of Contract "; " The Law of Torts," etc.
LONDON:
STEVENS AND SONS, LIMITED, ll9 & 120, CHANCERY LANE.
New York: BAKER, VOORHIS & CO.
1916.
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PREFACE
TO THE FIFTH ENGLISH EDITION.
The present edition contains extensive additions, as well as a great number of modifications and corrections. The position of a good deal of the matter has been rearranged for the sake of systematic exposition and logical coherence. Several omissions have been made relating to subjects that have now lost their importance; whilst other questions are considered much more fully. Thus
— to give but one or two instances among many — in the previous edition Wheaton's case (involving a discussion between the American and the Prussian Governments, in 1839, as to the exemption of public ministers from…